High profile celebrity weddings in 1949. People gather to witness the wedding of Prince Aly Khan with Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth on May 27, 1949. Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan is the Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly. Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan marries in Château de l'Horizon (55 Av. Edith Joseph, 06220 Vallauris, France), near Cannes, France. United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley marries Jane Rucker Hadley at St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1949. Wedding cake at the wedding of Vice President Barkley. The newlywed couple is shown smiling.
Berlin blockade to be lifted. Public and press gathered outside United States Mission building to the United Nations in Lake Success New York, USA. Inside the building, Russian and American dignitaries and UN representatives negotiate an end to the blockade. Closeups of the negotiators, including American diplomat Philip Jessup, Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik, and Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jean Chauvel, the United Nations permanent representatives from England and France, respectively. During the talks, Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin, Germany, via the Jessup-Malik Agreement. Dignitaries leave after the conference concludes. A railroad yard in Germany with rail cars filled with coal and other supplies, but idle due to the blockade. View of a busy city street in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the distance. German pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Berlin.
Reconstruction underway in Germany after the end of World War II. Cathedral of Cologne with a river in the foreground. Men clear rubble and damaged buildings in the city. Buildings under construction. Street cars and rubble strewn streets. A street photographer takes a picture of three women with a Cathedral in the background. Damaged buildings in the city. Munich: busy streets with construction work underway at many places. A painter paints a window trim. Stuttgart: people walk along the streets of the city. Many new buildings under construction.
Jews in Germany 4 years after the end of World War II. Cars carrying Jewish people move along a street to railway station as they leave for the newly founded state of Israel. The Israeli flag on a car. Men on bicycles. Men loaded onto a bus. Private cars decorated with branches move towards railway station. People gathered at the station. A man salutes.
Jews in Germany. A large number of people gathered at a railway station to bid goodbye to fellow Jews as they leave for the new state of Israel. Jews loaded in railroad cars. Men board the train. People greet them. Men carry a Israeli flag.
Fire at a film studio in Germany. The studio burns due to fire. The firemen on a roof of the studio as they spray water to extinguish fire. Fire blaze rising. A puff of smoke is formed. The film studio on fire. People stand near the studio. Men try to control the fire. The fire increases. The firemen put water with a hose. Smoke in the sky. The smoke screen is formed in the area.
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